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Buddy Dive Resort/Coral Paradise Resort, Feb, 2012, by Brigitte Lacouture, AK, US ( Contributor 15 reports with 4 Helpful votes). Report 6472.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food	N/A
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving
Snorkeling	N/A
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Comments	We stayed at Coral Paradise Resort. A prearranged taxi picked us up at the airport and our pick-up truck was waiting at the resort. The grounds are very clean and well maintained. Our room had plenty of towels and a large, shaded, patio for spreading out the dive gear to dry. Also a well equipped kitchen, though being so close to Captain Don's Habitat you could easily always eat at a restaurant if you so chose. There was a large, well stocked supermarket in town. We shore dove on our own and used Dive Buddy’s drive-through tank pick up. The drive-through worked well, but check the tank pressures before you load them as about a third were under filled or had leaked. Saw very few Lionfish on the dives, sometimes none, unlike on Curacao the week earlier. Lots of the usual Caribbean fish and some slightly rarer (scorpionfish, porcupinefish, spotted drums, cowfish, hamlets, blennies, lettuce sea slugs). Very relaxed diving usually between 10 and 20 m with no significant current. Liked the dives at Karpata, 1000 Steps, Angel City, The Invisibles, White Slave, and Vista Blue sites the best. The double reef is interesting. Hilma Hooker was OK, not that much growing on it yet, but did see a large lobster and a large green eel by the wheelhouse and interesting territorial behavior by Sergeant Majors on the side of the hull. We were worried about the petty crime reported on Bonaire. Whenever we parked we did not lock our truck up. We were told don’t take expensive sunglasses or electronic devices to the dive sites and we had no problems, seemed like you just needed to be reasonable. For nondiving activities, Washington Slagbaai National Park was well worth hiking and driving, plan for a full day there is a lot to see and the road is slow. For birders, saw a good variety of shore birds and a raptor along the last few km of road around the mangroves on the northeast side of Lac Bay.
Websites	Buddy Dive Resort Coral Paradise Resort
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	101-250 dives
Where else diving	Saba, Cayman, St. Vincent, Cozumel, Tahiti, Fiji, Borneo, Hawaii
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, cloudy	Seas	calm, no currents
Water Temp	26-26°C / 79-79°F	Wetsuit Thickness	4
Water Visibility	20-30 M / 66-98 Ft
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	yes
What I Saw
Sharks	None	Mantas	None
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	None	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish
Large Pelagics
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter	N/A	Boat Facilities	N/A
Overall rating for UWP's	N/A	Shore Facilities	N/A
UW Photo Comments	[None]

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Dive Review of Buddy Dive Resort/Coral Paradise Resort in Bonaire

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Dive Review of Buddy Dive Resort/Coral Paradise Resort in
Bonaire